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J. S. JENSON.

GOLF BAG SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 17. I919.

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J. S. JENSON.

GOLF BAG SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 17, 1919.

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J. St JENSON.

GOLF BAG SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 17. i919.

Patented NOV. 4, 1919.

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JEAN s. .rE soN, 'oF cI-iroAeo, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF 'ro ARTHUR o.

" MOWILLIAMS, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GoLf-BAG SUPPORT.

To all whom it. may 'concern:

citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented certain new and'useful Improvements in Golf-Bag Supports; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the inven- 'tion, such as "will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

M invention relates to means -for supporting a golf bag so that it will stand in a convenient position without any support or attention on the part of a caddie or other person. Incertain of its general aspects, my

invention aims to provide a support of this kind, including two legs adapted to afford a tripod with the bag itself; to provide simple and effective means for movm the said legs into and out of their tripod-a ording positions, to provide means for holding the legs either in their said positions or in retracted positions close to the'bag; to pro vide a leg-mounting which will automatically cause the legs to be returned when the bag is so moved as to drag the legs in one general direction; to provide means oper-' able from the handle side of the bag for moving the legs from one position. to another, and preferably topr'ovide mechanism for this purpose which can readily be operated by the hand grasping the handle'of the bag; and 'to provide a simple, neat and strong construction of parts for the above named purposes so designed as readily and firmly to be secured to any standard type of golf bag. More particularly, my invention aims to provide a single carrier plate adapted to be secured to the front of a golf bag and carrying both the legs and the operating mechanism for the purposes above designated; to provide a member operable from the rear of the bag for moving the legs from one position to another; to provide snap-over means for completing the movement of the legs in either direction when once properly started and for holding the legs in either of two positions; to pro vide simple means for securlng the said carrier member firmly to a standard type of golf bag; and to provide means for causing a lifting of the golf bag by its handle to automatically retract the tripod-affording legs. Still further objects will appear from Specification of Letters Patent. I Patented Nov, 4 1919, Application filed January 17, 191 9. Serial No. 271,553.

the followingspecification and from the ac- Be it known that'I, JEAN SQ JENSON,

companying drawings, in which.

Figurel-is a perspective view of a golf ag equipped with the support of my invention, show ng the same as it appears with the legs in their supporting ortripod-afl'ordmg posltions.

Fig.2 is an enlar ed side elevation of the upper portion of t e same golf bag, with the legs retracted. v

' Flg. 3 is a horizontalsection through 2 along the line 33. v r

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary and enlarged horizontal section along the line H of Fig. '2. I I p 5 is an elevation of the member which carrlesthe legs and the operating mecha-- nism.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged vertical section through the member of Fig. 5 and parts of the elements carried by this member, taken along the line 6-6 of Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is an enlarged and fragmentary horizontal section taken along the line 7-7 of Fig. 1. v

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary vertical section through the upper portion of the bag along the line 8--8-of Fig. 2.

Fig. 9 is a fragmentary'horizontal section through the bag along the line 9-9 of Fig. 8. i

Fig. 10 is a view showing a golf bag attachment embodying my invention and adapted for attaching thesame to a completely manufactured bag. f

In accomplishing the purposes of my invention I may either provide a supporting mechanism adapted to be bolted or otherwise attached to a completely manufactured golf bag, as shown in Fig. 10; or, I may fasten my mechanism to parts of the golf bag during the construction. of the latter, thereby-reducing the weight and improving the appearance of the resulting appliances as implied by Figs. 1 to 9 inclusive of the drawings. In these latter figures, I have shown a golf bag in which the main canvas portion 1 is reinforced by ribs 2 which afford a longitudinal stiffening for -the bag, and have shown the carrier member 3 of my mechanism as spanning two of these reinforcing ribs. This carrier member 3 is desirably a metal stamping equipped at its upper'ends with-laterally projecting lugs 4 and equipped nearer to its lower end with attaching lugs as shown in Fig. 5. The main portion of thls member 1s channel- "sectioned, having webs directed toward the thebag and affording pivots or an operating member 8, which member desirably consists of a loop passing around the rear of the bag and having inwardly bent ends connected at their extreme tips to the ears 7 respectively by pivot pins 9. These inwardly turned portions 'of the operatmg member 8 are also pivotally connected close to thelr bends with the respective links 6 by pins 10 extending through slots 11 in the ears 7.

The lower end of the carrier member 3 is desirably indented as shown in Fig. 5, so

as to subdivide this portion of the carrier member into two angularly divergin channels, which channels afford plvots or the upper ends of legs 11. E ach'of these legs is connected to the lower end of one of the rods 6 through a pivot pin 12 extending through a slot in the face of one of the said channels, these slots being shown in Figs. 5 and 6. Each leg 11 is further connected to one of the channel-sectioned lower ends of the carrier member 3 through a rod 13, which rod is forked at one end and carries a compression spring, the pivot pins at the opposite ends of the said rod being sodisposed that they will normally be out of alinement ,with the adjacent link 6 in each of the two normal positions of the legs. By one of these normal positions, I mean the position of Fig. 1, in which the two legs cooperate with the longitudinal rigidity of the golf bag to afford a tripod, and by the other position I mean that in which the legs are retracted parallel and close to the forward edge of the bag, as shown in Figs.'2 and 6. The upper end of each leg is desirably formed into a channel and so shaped that-the back of'the channel will engage the back of the adjacent channel-sectioned lower end. portion of the carrier member 3 when the leg is swung outwardly, so as to afford a stop for limiting the outward or diverging movement of the leg.

When the legs are retracted, this movement of the legs operates through the links 6 toswing the actuating member 8 about the pivots 9, thereby raising the loop 8 out of the bag as shown in Fig. 2. On depressing this rear portion of the loop, which can readily be reached by the hand grasping the handle of the golf bag, the links 6. are raised, thereby swinging the legs about their pivotal mountings 15. During the initial movement of each leg, the spring 14 will be compressed, owing to the a oresaid lack of alinement of the rod 14 with the link 6. How

ever, as soon as each leg has swung surfi- -associated with them.

upper edge of the latter is engaged "by a portion of the carrier member 3 as shown 1n Fig. 6 and will then hold the leg yieldingly in this position. Likewise, when each leg is in its retracted'position, asshown in full lines in Fig. 6, the spring 14: associated therewith will tend to swing the leg farther inward toward the bag and hence will hold the, leg in the, retracted position in which it is stopped by the engagement of the backs of the channel-shaped top-of the leg and the adjacent channel-shaped portion of the lower end of the carrier member.

With the legs thus moved outward into diverging positions, the golf bag can readily be set down and will then b in a convenient position as shown in Fig. 1. Then upon raising the rear portion .of theloop 8, the links 6 will again move downward,

thereby retracting the legs, which will be held in their retracted positions by the snap-over spring 14. Consequently, the legs can readily be moved from one position to the other by simply movin the loop 8, and th le s will be automatica ly held in either of their two normal positions by the springs the loop 8 to the handle 16 of the golf bag,

However, the legs as for example, by mounting this handle on 1 a link 17 pivoted to a rear'portion of the loop 8 shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and providing a slidable mounting 18 for the lower endof the rod 17. Thus arranged, a lifting of the bag by the handle 16 will automatically actuate the loop 8 and hence retract the legs. Likewise, upon setting down the bag and merely depressing the handle 16, the legs will be moved outward, so that the bag need only to be tipped slightly forward to bring it into its supported position of Fig. 1. Consequently, the operation of my mechanism will be entirely automatic,'and the legs will be swung into and out of their two positions by the ordinary manipulation of the bag.

To secure both a firm mounting and a handsome construction, I desirably attach my mechanism to certain portions of the golf are secured to a pair of reinforcing ribs 2 of the bag, and in which the upper end of the carrier member 3 is secured to the directly under the reinforcing ring 19 at the mouth of-thc bag However, I do not wish ,to be limited to these or other details of theconstruction and arrangement above disclosed. it being obvious that the same might be modified in many ways without departing from the spirit of my invention. For example, my invention may be embodied in a self-contained structur in which all parts are secured to the carrier member as shown in Fig. 10, and the parts as thus arranged can then be bolted or otherwise secured to a completely manufactured golf bag.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination with a longitudinally rigid golf bag, of a pivot member secured to the front'thereof, a pair of legs pivoted on said member and adapted to occupy two positions, in one of which positions they extend close to the front of the bag and in the other of which positions they diverge forwardly of the bag, means for simultaneously moving both legs from one of the said positions to the other, and yielding means for holding the legs in either of the said positions, the pivot member and the legs having interengaging formations for limiting the movement of the legs in both directions.

2 The combination witha longitudinally rigid golf bag, of a pair of legs pivotedto the front thereof and adapted to occupy two positions, in one of which positions they extend close to the front of the bag and in the other of which positions they diverge forwardly of the bag, means for simultaneously moving both legs from one of the said positions to the other, and means including independent sprin -actuated throw-over levers for completing t e movement of each of the legs in either direction when once effectively started.

3. The combination with a golf bag having longitudinal reinforcements, of a support-carrying member disposed at the front thereof between two ofthe reinforcements, a pair of legs pivoted to the said member and adapted to diverge from the front of the bag, and mechanism carried by the said member and operable from the rear of the bag for moving the legs to and from their diverging positions; the said member being secured to the reinforcements between which it is disposed by relatively short arm portions indenting the front of the bag to cause the said member to be disposed substantially flush with the bag.

4. The combination with a golf bag having a pair of longitudinal reinforcements, of a pivot member rigidly secured to the said reinforcements, a pair of legs pivoted to the said member, means ivoted upon the said member and connected to the legs for in which their free ends are spaced by considerable distances from each other and from the bag, and yielding means for holding the legs either in their said position or in a position in which their free ends are disposed closer to each other and to the bag, the legs and the pivot member having relatively interengageable sto formations for limiting the inovement o the legs toward and away from the bag. I

5. The combination with a longitudinally rigid golf bag, of a pair of legs pivoted to the front thereof and adapted to diverge from said front, means for holding the legs in their diverging position, means for retractin the legs from their diverging position, a oop' connected to the'said means and encircling the bag, and. a handle forthe bag connected to the loop so as to cause the loop to actuate the leg-retracting means upon a lifting of the bag by the handle.

6. The combination with a'longitudinally rigid golf bag, of a'pi'vot member secured to one side thereof, a pair of legs pivoted at. their upper ends to the pivot member, an

operating handle also pivoted to the pivot member, means connecting the handle and the legs whereby the legs may be simultaneously moved toward positions closeto or' diverging from the bag, and independent means for completing the movement of each of the legs in either direction when once effectively started.

7. The combination with a longitudinally rigid golf bag, of a pivot member secured to and arched away from one side thereof, a pair of legs pivoted at their upper endsto the pivot member, a loop pivoted upon the 1075' pivot member above the ivotal mounting of the legs and substantia ly encircling the bag, and means operatively connecting the loop With the legs for permitting the legs to be moved about their pivots by a movement of the loop, the last named means ineluding a pair of rods pivoted to the loop tances from each other and fromthe bag,

and yielding means for holding the legs either in their said position or in a position in which their free ends are disposed closer to each other and to the bag, the legs and the pivot member having relatively interengageable stop formations for limiting the movementof the legs toward and away from the p bag, the yielding means being jointly housedby the hollow upper ends of the legs and by adjacent portions of the pivot member.

9. The combination with a longitudinally rigid golf bag, of a plate secured to one side of the bag near the upper end of the latter and having outwardly arched formations at its lower ends, a pair of legs pivoted respectively to the said arched portions of the plate, operating means movably mounted upon the said plate, and means connecting the operating means with the legs and including rods extending respectively through the said channel portions of the plate.

10. The combination with a longitudinally rigid golf bag, of a plate secured to' one side of the bag near the upper end of the latter and having outwardly arched for-v mations at its lower ends, a pair oflegs pivoted respectively to the said arched portlons of the plate, operating means movably mounted upon the said plate, and means connecting the opera-ting means with the legs and including rods extending respectively Signed at Chicago, Illinois, January 13th, v

- JEAN S. JENSON. 

